02-07-2011, 12:41 PM
Yossarian:
I appreciate you sticking up for me, but I don't perceive any hostility or lack of respect where you do. If you'll refer to the original post, I was floating an idea, not looking for people to approve of my idea. Frank feedback is all I ever wanted, because I often have a choice between seeing what I want to see and seeing things as they actually are.
I did not take people's words as discouragement; I took them as, "what are you trying to accomplish, Jeremy?" And given what I'm trying to accomplish - an effective transmission of the concepts of the Law of One - I've concluded that it would be more beneficial for me to compose original works that reflect my best understanding, rather than re-ordering a body of material that was so carefully preserved with minimal editing to maximize transparency and honesty. That is my goal: to do something of similar honesty and transparency, something that does honor to the original material without feeding into the negative impulse to reorder what is already perfect.
So my takeaway from this thread is this: I will read through the material once more, taking notes, and I will use these notes and reflections to write more on my thoughts and findings. This is more honest path than a "Jefferson's Bible" approach (which was an excellent analogy for what I was proposing) because it allows me to say exactly what I want to instead of trying to filter Ra's words to my own purposes. If it's going to be all about me, might as well be up front about it.
Thanks for your concern, Yossarian.
I appreciate you sticking up for me, but I don't perceive any hostility or lack of respect where you do. If you'll refer to the original post, I was floating an idea, not looking for people to approve of my idea. Frank feedback is all I ever wanted, because I often have a choice between seeing what I want to see and seeing things as they actually are.
I did not take people's words as discouragement; I took them as, "what are you trying to accomplish, Jeremy?" And given what I'm trying to accomplish - an effective transmission of the concepts of the Law of One - I've concluded that it would be more beneficial for me to compose original works that reflect my best understanding, rather than re-ordering a body of material that was so carefully preserved with minimal editing to maximize transparency and honesty. That is my goal: to do something of similar honesty and transparency, something that does honor to the original material without feeding into the negative impulse to reorder what is already perfect.
So my takeaway from this thread is this: I will read through the material once more, taking notes, and I will use these notes and reflections to write more on my thoughts and findings. This is more honest path than a "Jefferson's Bible" approach (which was an excellent analogy for what I was proposing) because it allows me to say exactly what I want to instead of trying to filter Ra's words to my own purposes. If it's going to be all about me, might as well be up front about it.
Thanks for your concern, Yossarian.